Paradoxically, To Be Truly Idle, You Also

We Have Become So Obsessed By Numbers And By Bottom Lines That Beauty And Truth Has Been Knocked Aside.

Faffing Is Completely Harmless, Whereas Its Opposite - Dynamic, Purposeful Activity - Is Often Very Harmful. Faffers Do Not Tend To Kill People Or Make Them Work 12-hour Days Or Sell Them Shoddy Merchandise Or Lend Them Vast Sums Of Money That They Cannot Pay Back.

Guilt Is Also A Way For Us To Express To Others That We Are A Person Of Good Conscience. 'i Feel Really Guilty About Getting Drunk Last Night,' We Say, When In Actual Fact We Feel No Guilt Whatsoever Or, At Least, We Could Choose To Feel No Guilt. When People Say To Me, 'i Drank Too Much Last Night,' I Always Reply, 'i Drank Exactly The Right Amount.

Working Is Bad Enough In The Winter, But In The Summer It Can Become Completely Intolerable. Stuck In Airless Offices, Every Fibre Of Our Being Seems To Cry Out For Freedom. We're Reminded Of Being Stuck In Double Maths While The Birds Sing Outside.

All Poets Are Idlers, Even If All Idlers Are Not Poets.